Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1965. Granary, hotel.
Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- floating-timber-swallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1965
- Type
- Granary, hotel
- OS grid reference
- NT 237 736
- Coordinates
- 55.9502, -3.22224
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bell's Mills, located on Belford Road in Edinburgh, is a former granary built in 1807 that was converted into hotel accommodation in 2009 by the Burrell Company Ltd. The building is three stories tall with an attic and features a seven-bay shallow rectangular plan, positioned next to the Water of Leith. The central bay is slightly advanced and includes a triangular pediment with a decorative carved roundel panel. The exterior is constructed of coursed random rubble, with some droved ashlar quoins, cills, lintels, and rybats.
The attic has four rectangular timber dormers with piended roofs and slate hung cheeks. The windows are predominantly small pane timber sash and case. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates and has sandstone skews. The gablehead stacks are coped, and there are clay cans. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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